American AcornsWorld War I draft registration card of Ernest Linwood Oak, Gardiner, Maine, Precinct 1 (registrar C. F. Johnson), 5 June 1917: born Skowhegan 5 June 1894, shoe-shop operator for R. P. Hazzard Co., single, with a widowed mother dependent on him; the registrar's report is on the other side.
Image · attached to: Birth, Residence · source: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, World War I draft registration cards (Kennebec County, Maine, draft board 2), via Ancestry
How it is shown: Complete card, both sides, as held in the registry; no crop, no retouch.
Keep in mind: What the page says: name, age 23, birth date and place (Skowhegan), natural-born citizen, living at 15 Highland Ave., Gardiner, 'Operator, Shoe Shop' for R. P. Hazzard Co., a widowed mother dependent, single, no prior military service, no exemption claimed; the registrar describes him as tall and slender with dark blue eyes and brown hair, no disability. All of these are statements, Confirmed as stated. Whether this is our person: the registry tags Ernest Linwood Oak (1894-1959); the name and the birth date 5 June 1894 agree exactly with the 1960 headstone application for him, so the two documents are treated as the same man (Confirmed in the R11 return). His parentage in the tree stays Likely.